Litchfield Newswire

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill has appointed Litchfield lawyer and longtime League of Women Voters of Connecticut leader Christine Horrigan to the position of election monitor for Hartford. Horrigan is tasked with making sure the election is managed properly in the capital city, in compliance with the law.
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Mark Ramsay, the owner of LEAF, the Lewis Educational Agricultural Farm, is experimenting with grafted vegetables to increase yield and keep plants healthier. These Geronimo tomatoes are grafted onto Maxifort root stock and are giving him 25% more yield than his conventional tomato plants.
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A string of strong thunderstorms knocked out power to about 55,000 people across much of the lower half of the state Tuesday night. Eversource Energy was reporting 52,448 outages about 5:45 p.m. All the 2,060 customers in Chester were without power at that time, according to the company's outage map.
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Students from Jefferson Science Magnet School in Norwalk, release a flounder back into Long Island Sound during a Marine Life Study Cruise on The Maritime Aquarium's research vessel Oceanic in Norwalk in 2011. BETTINA HANSEN Four Connecticut schools were designated as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing the achievement gaps.
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Rod Dixon reaches the first crest of Gallows Lane hill, which is a part of the Litchfield Hills road race course, and is one of the more difficult hills to conquer in the state. Dixon, a former Olympian and New York City marathon winner, is known for his hill climbing ablilities.
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Connecticut now has more than 4,000 registered medical marijuana patients, new figures from the state Department of Consumer Protection show. The Medical Marijuana Program, which began last fall, had 4,097 registered patients as of June 5, up from 3,600 in April and 2,300 in September.
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Rev. Stephen Sledesky, a priest at St. Bridget School, will leave May 29 on a seven day, 350 mile bike ride with other priests from the Archdiocese of Hartford to raise awareness and funding for their Catholic schools. Rev. Stephen Sledesky, a priest at St. Bridget School, will leave May 29 on a seven day, 350 mile bike ride with other priests from the Archdiocese of Hartford to raise awareness and funding for their Catholic schools.
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Connecticut environmental officials say the destructive Southern pine beetle has been detected at four sites in Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven counties. Officials say Connecticut's native white pine is not at risk, but pitch pine and other hard pines are.
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A Massachusetts man who made a series of phony radio calls on frequencies used by Litchfield County fire departments and ambulance crews was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison. Adam Perrelli, 36, who has been jailed since his arrest April 6, 2014, pleaded guilty to falsely reporting an incident and tampering with physical evidence, according to a clerk in Superior Court in the Bantam section of Litchfield.
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Let's assume the Hartford Yard Goats management will set aside an animal space down one of the foul lines or maybe even in deep center field beyond the warning track in the new stadium soon to go up in Hartford. The team is going to need a mascot and, of course, it has to be a goat for the Double A Eastern League's newest member team.
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Workers at a construction site noticed the leak at Hunter's Chase Litchfield about 10:20 a.m. and called for help, said a dispatcher at Litchfield County Dispatch. Some nearby occupied homes were evacuated as a precaution, he said.
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Scattered through Gov. Dannel P. Malloy 's proposed budget are spending cuts that target popular programs, a tactic that some legislators in both parties suspect is being used to gain negotiating leverage. Why else, they ask, would Malloy try to chop $196,000 from a $20 billion-a-year budget by closing a state fish hatchery that's popular with fishermen, schoolchildren and environmentalists? This is the third time since 2011 that Malloy has sought to close it, and a renewed uproar over the hatchery has already begun.
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Already facing charges of promoting prostitution and shoplifting from grocery stores more than a dozen times, former state judicial marshal Michael A. Connelly appeared again Wednesday in the courthouse where he used to work, this time to face charges of illegal possession of child pornography. Investigators said in court records released Wednesday that the tens of thousands of photos and videos on memory cards found in Connelly's home showed children as young as 6 posing nude and engaging in sex acts.
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